Carver focuses on the narrator's character because he would likely be described as more blind than the blind man. The narrator is detatched, uninterested, uninvolved, and most of all has no skills in oberservation. What he presumes to see is...

The narrator's epiphany involves the ability to look at the world from a new and different perspective. He comes to see that his own tunnel vision, or tendency to only see things his own way, has limited and isolated his view of the world around...